Bishop12
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Hi Folks!! I'm a newbie grower on my third indoor run. I started to learn how to grow at the beginning of the pandemic (when everyone else was obsessing over baking bread). My first two runs were spectacular and probably gave me a sense of over-confidence-- likely leading to the problems I'm seeing now! I'm growing in a 3x3 under 250w LED. In my first runs, I did 5 gallon pots, which worked well, but I ultimately decided to go with 3 gallon pots this run. The biggest change, however, was switching from Advanced Nutrients liquid fertilizers to Happy Frog dry fertilizers. The plants are 3 autoflowers from ILGM (2x Cheese, 1x Gelato). During the vegetative stage, the plants seemed to thrive (see first photo). I tried to keep the canopies relatively flat by keeping up with LST. The problems, however, began when they entered into pre-flower. I may have made a really rookie error by doing some light defoliation to promote better airflow (see before and after photos). Shortly after removing some lower vegetation and bud sites that were unlikely to produce, the plants began to show signs of acute over-watering (or at least that is what it looked like to me). A quick trip to Dr. Google suggested that in terms of remediation I should let the plants dry out over a couple days, which I proceeded to do. After letting the plants dry (pots light when lifted), I'm not seeing any signs of improvement. Does anyone have any thoughts on what could be going wrong? Since these are autoflowers, I suspect I am getting close to the thresholds were any significant growth stunts will be too detrimental to recover. I should also mention that climate is likely not an issue. I am--fortunately-- able to control the enviroment quite well (average 68 temp / 45% humidity).
edit: (please ignore the young plant in the black pot-- that's a recent Blueberry Kush that I'm working on)
edit: (please ignore the young plant in the black pot-- that's a recent Blueberry Kush that I'm working on)
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